man are they prolific...

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i got exactly 1 pest "bladder type" pest snail in my new nano tank, some how either transferring stuff from another tank, or in with the couple plants I bought, but I just counted 8 clutches of eggs, on the drift wood, and glass... they blueberry snails are live bearers, so they must be from the one pest snail I saw the other day... I guess I need to keep a tweezers here, and waste no time removing any I see... I'm going to take a wet papertowl and wiped the few on the glass and do my best to remove the blobs from the wood...
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Ugh...I remember when I had bladder snails in several of my tanks (5 gal, 6.6 gal, and 28 gal). In the 5 gal, it was bad enough that I had to run the tank with bleach to kill them all. The 28 gal had a young peacock cichlid who did a fine job at managing the population (so well that there are no longer bladder snails in that tank), and I honestly can't remember how I killed off the ones in the 6.6 gal. If you don't have any ornamental inverts in the tank (if I'm understanding correctly, the blueberry snail is the issue?), I would consider assassin snails. I've heard nothing but good things about their performance, and that should help control (and eventually eliminate) the pest snail population.
 

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